russia's foreign minister demands explanation from the u.s. over the recent downing of a syrian fighter jet as concerns grow over whether washington has its own agenda in syria. europe remains in gold and terror as another attack hits the belgian capital after a man detonated an explosive device at a brussels train station. this is how much is going to leave the survivors of. this makes to be shocking when you see. the u.k. government is heavily criticized anger at what people call the small sums allocated for the survivors of the grand felt our fire in london.

thanks for tuning in you're watching r t international has just turned eleven in the morning here in the russian capital with you as. russia's foreign minister says moscow is waiting for a washington's explanations after the u.s. led coalition down a syrian army plane near the city of raka sergey lavrov also stressed that the pentagon is still treating various terrorist groups differently. for. the french we have sure the u.s. is really targeting i'm sure but we don't recall america bombing so actively. so what it's called now it's constantly changing its name but it doesn't change its nature. russia has now hold that some cooperation with the us over syria but pulling out of the agreement is signed with washington to prevent collisions in syrian airspace meanwhile australia has announced that it is temporarily suspending

its air operations in syria the u.s. led coalition says the downing of a syrian fighter jet came in quote self-defense however in the last month the coalition has already targeted syrian forces and forces loyal to the massacres five times let's have a look at where the attacks took place the plane was shot down here southwest of the syrian city in rocker where the coalition is supporting kurdish troops in their fight against eisel but also the u.s. led coalition conducted several bombing raids against pro-government fighters here in the training base in those cases the same justification was used by the pentagon that the pro side forces had breached a d. complection zone jacqueline vogel looks at how washington is changing its rules of engagement in the conflict. trump made it clear that defeating terrorism and putting an end to the trend of u.s. interventions in the middle east were top priorities so he opted for granting more power to the military what i do is i authorized by military we have the greatest

military in the world but was it a good decision let's take a look at the military's recent actions in syria where the u.s. coalition is supposed to be working to crush eisel and recent months the u.s. led forces attacked pro-government troops five times one of them was the downing of a syrian army jet and the justification was always the same self-defense and what they also say is they had to respond to the violation of so-called confliction zones which by the way weren't approved by the syrian government ok but if it helps eradicate eisel what's the problem well first we have the u.s. training and giving arms to a bunch of anti-government forces one of them the new syrian army would really like to topple assad. then there's the syrian democratic forces largely consisting of kurds who would really love to grab more power from the government and eventually become

independent remember that the confliction zones they're controlled by those forces supported by the u.s. and the syrian government is not allowed there so once i finish we will have fully trained armed to the teeth forces controlling significant chunks of syrian territory partially hostile to the government what could possibly go wrong i don't see u.s. forces leaving in the short term they have been deploying more pentagon troops in syria president. ordered hundreds more over the last several months he did indicate that he wanted to lessen tensions with the russian federation that he wanted to focus our u.s. military policy towards the elimination of the islamic state. what we've seen however over the last five months since he was inaugurated is just the opposite so it seems in this effort to defeat the u.s.

could in fact be fanning new hotbed of tension if you like washington has a case of tunnel vision trying to solve only one problem without seeing the bigger picture sound familiar and should iraq anyone but history teaches us nothing clearly not even past tweets such as this one from donald trump to then president obama in two thousand and thirteen he warned that nothing good would come to the us from attacking syria apparently hindsight isn't twenty twenty one to get to the white house. r.t. washington d.c. we heard from several experts and got their take on the latest developments. the united states and the coalition are there without any permission without any i mean for the president and so when we when we not only do we enter here. and there are sovereign airspace. but now we have shot down syrian jets we have been carrying out bombing attacks

this is an act of war of aggression under under international law one thing that i'm concerned about because i've seen it happen so often over the years are false flags some by accident have either except if it's an honest accident or if it's deliberate by one side of the other to blame somebody and before they stop and think about it then there's more escalation so when when our planes are flying over there and into a space where we shouldn't be setting up boundaries and saying don't cross these. these lines or you'll be crossing over our territory we have no right to do that. a terror investigation has been launched after an man detonated an explosive device at a proselyte straying station no casualties happened we pointed out a shot of bensky has that details. police say that the man triggered a small explosion in brussels central station in the evening of tuesday night

during what was essentially the rush hour in the station and there have been some pictures emerging from the scene they are unverified pictures but they appear to show a man engulfed in flames and that what we have been hearing is that that small explosion and this come from the police that the man was surrounded in that explosion some people say they saw the man and just before he let off his device he was wearing a rucksack we understand and also had a small belt and we understand that it's either the rucksack called the belt that contained the explosives other people saying that there was panic at the scene with that noise take a listen to this. i saw him blowing up a suitcase which i gave to you vacuity as many people as possible and there he was just behind me two meters away from the stairs and he still had a belt on him now the police have say that they have shot and neutralized the

suspect has been neutralized by the military were present at the scene immediately . they were not the victims. deceased and just consider as a terrorist to hear from eyewitness accounts the man shouting allahu akbar which means god is great in arabic which is a term that has been used by many other people as they carrying out terrorist incidents what we know at the moment at this incident is under investigation and we are waiting to find out more details of that investigation. the attackers identity and motives are still unknown but this is far from the first time that the belgian capital faces a terrorist threat in march last year brussel saw a string of terror attacks with islamic state claiming responsibility those atrocities left over thirty people dead and more than three hundred injured.

meanwhile europe remains under the threat of terror the latest attack took place in paris on monday as a car deliberately slammed into the police van before bursting into flames the driver who was known to police died in the assault will belgium and france remain on high alert we spoke to a number of experts who fear more of such incidents in the. i think that what you're going to be seeing is an increase in these activities we're only halfway through ramadan for one thing but on the other hand you also have anywhere from fifteen hundred to two three thousand returning. frenchmen. from syria who need to be occupied with and that's going to be their duty now and as long as they've lost the caliphate they're going to be going back to their to

their countries and they are going to attempt to wreak havoc and create this kind of thing so that these kind of terrorist activities then become the new normal it does seem like a very you know regular occurrence we're hearing it all too often it's honestly it's becoming hard to keep track of all of them to happen with such frequency and there are so many similarities between the wife sherry is in this particular case what we find out about it was you know under the radar or did they know about him apparently the guy shops always it was all on the list he was known to french authorities be interested also because there does seem to be this connection between belgian and france attacks but the france attacks in november were carried out by a belgian cell and so there is this relationship between belgium and france when it

comes to models. u.s. military advisers in afghanistan are finding themselves increasingly under fire from the very people they've been training until recent incidents alone three u.s. soldiers were killed and seven more injured. points. that camp a joint afghan and nato military base it's here that's a taliban infiltrator turned his gun on coalition troops injuring seven american soldiers everyone who knew him or was friends with him is now. under investigation being questioned though the base itself is still operational and training continues what we can safely say is that from now on after this latest incident american troops will be looking at their afghan allies with just that little bit more suspicion. green on blue attacks when afghan forces either infiltrators

with defectors purposefully fired on coalition troops it's been a taliban tactic for years this is an achievement for the mujahideen who have managed to create mistrust among the enemy forces such attacks peaked during a bomb as troops it got sued bad that the reader wrote the book on security. oh. no that it didn't our first american soldiers training afghans were assigned bodyguards then all coalition troops well ordered to have their weapons looted at all times afghan recruits were made to go through an eight step vetting process while an inquisition like nobody purged anyone dragica yet here we are. some breaking news out of afghanistan

three u.s. service members are dead a fourth wounded after a shooting reportedly carried out by a member of the afghan military terrorists seven u.s. army soldiers that have been wounded in northern afghanistan now this comes a week after three u.s. army soldiers were killed in a similar incident to a deadly attack on american soldiers overseas to attacks in a span of a really childer was three soldiers killed seven wounded when a fire sure it's nothing like two thousand and twelve when green on blue violence killed or injured more than one hundred troops but the situation was. for and then there were fifteen times as many americans in afghanistan and the taliban was losing not so now i understand it's my responsibility we're not winning in afghanistan right now the taliban is resurgent taking over vast swaths of afghanistan islamic state is also spreading across the country the afghan army the

coalition a beset by challenges. for another troop surge as. some additional forces from the united states will come to afghanistan to take part in training and advising our national forces if one hundred and forty thousand troops couldn't win this war what difference will four thousand make. those and troops americans can all different i mean that's kind of been in afghanistan they just want to fight and then you know they can achieve their goals. with more american troops in afghanistan people will get more frustrated and insecurity will increase afghans a pessimistic they've heard it all the full public says of security victory at the end of the day how do you win a war when you can't even tell which of your allies is going to shoot you in the back where i guess d.s. . from kabul afghanistan. the u.k.

government comes under fresh criticism for his handling of london's grenfell tower fire this story and more aftershocks break. people with stories to tell. the tale so deserve to be heard. still and you know you since. you seem to think this is. they're here to speak are you there to hear.

the fact that trump to get elected was a series of wise and distortions is a reflection of the fact that the voting public could be convinced by that and what we really need to do when one of the reasons as a scientist i'm interested in this is we really need to get people to apply the same standards of politics that apply to science skeptical inquiry empirical testing the demand evidence for what your politicians tell you. welcome back and m.p. for britain's opposition labor party has raised concern that survivors of the our fire are not being helped and even forced to sleep rough a number of people presumed dead from the incident has risen to seventy nine with police warning that number could rise further this is the latest video from inside the burned out building it shows the remains of charred apartments police say everyone who lived in these flats has been accounted for the fire broke out early

last wednesday morning and quickly engulfed the twenty four story rest of the block . theresa may has ordered a federal inquiry into the tragedy and pledged five million pounds to help victims but labor leader jeremy corbyn in his letter to the prime minister noted that it won't be sufficient given the scale of the crisis and the sit and associate her going to has been out in london asking people whether they think the u.k. needs to reconsider its spending priorities put in billion to seventy million. what is it about the british government is spending this money on certain things which things do you think they're spending. with thirteen billion to the n.h.s. . government this is maybe maybe on the but bill is quite tall i. bet in france which ones. about one hundred seventy five. but that. social care as in the seventy million you think it's social care yeah it

is what they're spending on that. they're spending three hundred seventy million only for thoughts in sight. this is how much is going to the survivors right. beneath. them. not put it so it's actually shocking when you see like. five then yeah yeah. yeah. that's the fun of it but they can spend three hundred seventy or followed by the last one should be more. a lot more a lot more i think so they should spend more on those you know like that because there are many buildings. in london. which are in the same state this bucket impose really need refurbished really. this is. it's

shameful shameful. the philippines army has launched a fresh push to dr isom militants out of the southern city of. the military are deploying armored vehicles with warplanes conducting aerial bombing of the terrorists' fortified positions the fighting has now entered a fifth week and claimed at least three hundred and fifty lives. was. and the country has been receiving some international help u.s. military advisers are there to assist their philippine colleagues but it turns out

president reagan never invited them artes mcgovern santiago looks at how the country's chain of command operates. so how where is president due to take what's going on in his own country now you may recall that when you told he became president last year he took quite a hostile stance towards the u.s. not an easy task considering you once wore a us colony. ship but. the . board he. is still sure that it will admit it but it's going on today that turkey is battling eisel allied groups who invaded the south an island of mindanao and captured one of its largest cities and the u.s. military is there to providing assistance the u.s. embassy in manila claims that the philippines government requested the aid and

apparently it wasn't the president who asked for help. philippines army with the army brigadier general to do a saying to a.p. that we don't have good surveillance equipment so we asked the u.s. military for help now the philippine army stressed it was only the equipment and no boots on the ground however the pentagon said it's also sending an additional three hundred to five hundred u.s. troops to support regular training activities and note the details now that the president no well it turned out he didn't until the help arrived. but made an appeal as it didn't even know that the american government was with the technical and president authority did not say whether his military went over his head he only said that because of the long time close ties between the u.s. and its ex colony is army has always been very pro-american and now almost a week after that pretty surprising admission we are learning from the president's

spokesperson that he quote accepted the situation at this stage for the president there to see the very vulnerable at this stage. not one who doesn't want the. unrest from his own military except. that his generals are pro-american call us and it seems that yes they live with that kind of situation if you want to stay on in power so when you have a leader of a country not aware of a foreign power cooperating with its own military and then saying he accepts the situation days later that clearly means that something is not right with the grasses and thiago r.t. . leading technology companies including facebook and apple are under growing pressure from u.s. and allied intelligence agencies who are set to discuss plans to press the firms to share and cryptic data it comes amid increasing cost and online encryption

intensifying fears that people will lose their privacy and that mass for a survey alliance proposals will be discussed at the meeting next month. this proposal comes from a western alliance known as the five ice formed back in the forty's it conducts intelligence activities by collecting and sharing data working with the u.s. national security agency mass surveillance programs and the u.s. justice department is now seeking new ways to fight encryption as the trend to fight the practice goes global artist him often explains our enhanced mention clued forty one point five million dollars to enhance the f.b.i. cyber efforts and twenty two million dollars to address this going dark problem which i think is our most significant law enforcement challenge going dark refers to law enforcement increasing inability to lawfully access collect intercept real time communications and stored data. now this all sounds really complicated like the kind of thing that can only be of concern to tech savvy teenagers and geeks

well that couldn't be further from the truth the deputy u.s. attorney general wants to spend millions of dollars to fight against encryption so what is encrypt it is that this isn't good enough. and. the right parties can access it all of the major messengers whatsapp telegram you name it are encrypted chats this prevents the messages you send and receive from being intercepted by others so why is the department of justice seeking to meddle in a thing that works so well terrorism turns out that isis has been using encrypted messages when planning and carrying out their attacks and to spread their propaganda knowing that the information won't get into the hands of those who want to stop them so cracking down on encryption is not just a us thing. at the moment much of this traffic is difficult for security agencies to decrypt the privacy of a terrorist can never be more important than public safety. later this month five star officials from the u.s. the u.k.

australia new zealand and canada will be gathering to share their perspective on why tech firms should be obligated to share their data with policing agencies the prime minister of the united kingdom included this is a plank in her election manifesto and also insisted that the government have a role in controlling the internet france and germany also voiced agreement with the idea. in many cases we're dealing with end to an encryption which means that we need to end at the end or the beginning of a conversation rather than intercepting between. the much more complicated as it needs to be made possible. we are in. a situation with our government we're with you know everything about us and we know nothing about what the government is doing they have the right to privacy and secrecy but the individual does not anymore terrorist and other criminals will always use all kinds of technologies to enable their activities i mean terrorists to use drones terrorist use g.p.s.

receivers what are we supposed to do should we stop selling g.p.s. we have to accept it when we deploy technology that stood to better the benefit of all of society that some people are going to use it. looks like all of us will be obligated to give up some of our own private space no matter how much we feel that our personal business should be kept strictly personal but what remains to be seen is how effective this will be in the fight against terror. marty new york. feeling underground what the times he is up next to our viewers in ireland and the u.k. are two films and inside north korea after having prepares the birthday parade of president kim stay with us. satyrs financial survival guide by a i promise you. as of last summer

my ex from the future. was kaiser. the u.k. in crisis after a series of deadly terrorist attacks a hung parliament and the horrific human tragedy of the towers as well as the burning issue of brakes and many asking if the ruling elite.

go washington relations sharply deteriorate over syria and britain mourns a lethal islamophobia atrocity we're going underground coming up on the show the u.k. ministry of defense tells this program will continue to invade syrian airspace despite australia pulling out of the u.s. coalition a decision taken up to moscow threatens any u.s. coalition aircraft flying west of the euphrates river we also have a white house official one short closer to all out war and blowback to revenge attacks we ask britain's shadow minister of foreign affairs if the. media is responsible for radicalizing white supremacists as the queen today opens parliament to reduce speech by embattled u.k. prime minister to raise a plot from the headlines find out how it is taking liberties with lives at sea

and who's offering a stalled prime minister a rather softer landing all this it will coming up in today's going underground but first as if what seem like weekly atrocities continue in britain from the grenfell tower inferno in kensington to a terror attack against muslims in london isn't bad enough relations between nuclear armed moscow and washington have sharply deteriorated in the past seventy two hours britain along with the united states you'll remember have switched sides no longer de facto supporting isis and al-qaeda linked groups to overthrow the secular government of president assad. in syria but while u.s. and british warplanes have been aiding the russian led syria iran onslaught on isis one of donald trump's planes appeared to aide isis on sunday we begin tonight with breaking news overseas for the first time a u.s. fighter jet has shot down a syrian warplane the details are just coming in within hours moscow introduced a red lines even before the u.s. downing of another syrian.